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_____bee_____ commented on Moving from Ruby to Rust deliveroo.engineering/201... · Posted by u/steveklabnik

stavros · 7 years ago

I've been wanting to learn Rust for a long time, but I'm hit by the curse of Python being the second best at everything. Every time I try to write something in Rust, I think "okay, I can either spend a week learning Rust and writing this, by which point I might lose motivation, or I can have it done in Python in an hour".

Unfortunately, Python always wins, and it's also never not an option, since it runs on everything I care to develop on :(

_____bee_____ · 7 years ago

That's the story of my life :(

_____bee_____ commented on Ask HN: What is your failure story? · Posted by u/codesternews

kadendogthing · 7 years ago

Huge kudos to your manager for standing up like that. Companies often look for a single point of failure (it's only human), instead of admitting that the organization as a whole systematically failed to prevent the error, let alone discover it "in time."

I hate to use platitudes but companies are only really as strong as their weakest link (not to impugn your skills or anything like that). Letting a single failure sink the whole ship means there are larger issues at play.

_____bee_____ · 7 years ago

`Work for people who can put trust in you, and can fight for you. ` a lesson I learn the hard way as well

_____bee_____ commented on Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? · Posted by u/apitman

_____bee_____ · 7 years ago

fooled by randomness

_____bee_____ commented on Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy fastcompany.com/90290703/... · Posted by u/jbredeche

_____bee_____ · 7 years ago

Snips (https://snips.ai/) can be a good alternative

_____bee_____ commented on Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics? · Posted by u/sreeramvenkat

ghufran_syed · 7 years ago

the following assumes you are in the US.

If you already have a bachelor's degree, then I would do online lower div courses, often available via community college (Virginia has the whole lower div sequence online), then I would do the University of London graduate diploma, run by the London school of economics.[1] The courses are basically equivalent to upper div math / stats / early grad school classes.

If you don't have a bachelor's degree, UoL don't have a degree with just math. They used to just have just a "math and economics degree", but have recently launched a "data science and business analytics" bsc [2] which looks like it has very little non-mathematical content (certainly less than a US math degree that has gen ed requirements)

I did a non-mathematical undergrad a long time ago, then did the lower div math courses online via community college. Currently doing an MS in math and stats in person at my local state school, but also enrolled in the london graduate math diploma this year to go over some things in more detail, and to help me review things before comprehensive exams next year :)

Message me if you want more info, happy to help!

[1] https://london.ac.uk/courses/mathematics

[2] https://london.ac.uk/data-science-and-business-analytics

_____bee_____ · 7 years ago

Do you recommend their MSc program?

_____bee_____ commented on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? · Posted by u/rwieruch

_____bee_____ · 7 years ago

I focused on reading books about politics & technology. These are my favorites

- Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future by Joi Ito (4.5/5)

- Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella (4.5/5)

- Becoming by Michelle Obama (4.9/5)

_____bee_____ commented on Ask HN: Designing your own PhD? · Posted by u/hsikka

mxaxg · 7 years ago

PhD by Publication is an option here in the UK. Check this link from Warwick University to see if you're eligible and if this is something you'd be interested in: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research/phdbypubli...

_____bee_____ · 7 years ago

Interesting! Does this mean that you can focus on publishing a few papers and make a proposal highlighting all your contributions and papers, then apply to get a PhD title.

_____bee_____ commented on Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around? · Posted by u/cellml

_____bee_____ · 7 years ago

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